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Rocks

Fraggle Rock.

Lordsburg, New Mexico

Fraggle Rock

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

Kelly holds the diamond in her hand.

Found: A Diamond, Where Gold Was Supposed to Be

Since the 1850s, gold miners have found about 600 diamonds in California.

Sarah Laskow August 18, 2017

Rock Rings.

Bellingham, Washington

Rock Rings

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

Garnet Hill Rockhound Area

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Fairy Rock behind Saltom Pit

Whitehaven, England

Fairy Rock

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

Vågsøy, Norway

Kannesteinen Rock

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.

Red Canyon

Panguitch, Utah

The Cassidy Trail

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

A Scottish Daredevil's Tight-Rope Walk Across the Old Man of Hoy

From geological wonder to circus spire.

Eric Grundhauser July 14, 2017

A misty day at Mousa Broch

Sandwick, Scotland

Broch of Mousa

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

Tumuli near Byaduk

Byaduk, Australia

Tumuli Lava Blisters

These naturally occurring but rare geological formations are each about the size of a small house.

Norway's Destroyed Penis Rock Rises Again

It was streamed live.

Erik Shilling July 7, 2017

The sky over the Nubian Desert in Sudan, just after 2008-TC3 passed through the atmosphere.

The First Asteroid We Knew Would Hit Earth in Advance

When 2008-TC3 crashed into the Sudanese desert, not everyone was surprised.

Cara Giaimo June 30, 2017

A tiny piece of trinitite, close up.

The Long, Weird Half-Life of Trinitite

The synthetic material—forged in the blast of the first nuclear bomb test—has been buried, sold, collected, displayed, and even made into jewelry.

Cara Giaimo June 30, 2017

Operation Tracer Cave

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

Permanently Closed

Yucca Valley, California

Bob's Crystal Cave

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Vandals Have Destroyed Norway's Most Phallic Rock

Trollpikken, for now, is no more.

Erik Shilling June 26, 2017

The ovoos are made from lava rocks

Tariat, Mongolia

Ovoos at Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake

A jagged silhouette of shamanistic stone heaps rises from the shore of this dazzling mile-high lake.

A demonstration of how an ancient drill might have worked.

Found: A 7,500-Year-Old Stone Drill Bit

Sarah Laskow June 12, 2017